resisted
ri-ZIS-tid/ɹɪˈzɪstɪd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of resist.
The town resisted the invading army for several weeks.
She has resisted every attempt to change her mind.
Note
One regular -ed spelling does double duty: it is the simple past (the town resisted) and also the participle after have or be. Because resist usually takes an object, the passive comes easily, as in the reforms were resisted for years. The intransitive use needs no object: they resisted, then gave way. In older writing it could also mean that something was distasteful to someone, a use now obsolete.
resisted is a form of resist
resist, verb: To make an effort to counter the actions or effects of something. Full entry
- Spelling
- resist → resisted: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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